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EDM festival organisers know how to play right tunes

Tourism Minister Rohan Khaunte has reportedly said that his government will not dance to tunes of the Sunburn promoter to somehow show that he's against the holding of the said event in the vicinity of Manohar International Airport at Mopa this time for a reason.  Well, these are all temporary blackmailing tactics because our past tourism ministers were also heard issuing such similar type of statements to fool us for a while and then granting permissions to the promoter of this very festival at the last minute. Goans should therefore not take our minister's statement very seriously because finally he too will officially allow them to organize that particular festival not just in the vicinity of the Manohar International Airport at Mopa but in any part of Goa i.e. right from Canacona, Valpoi or maybe even in the vicinity of Old Goa. Yes, the organisers of such EDM festivals finally know how to make our respective tourism ministers and the government dance to their tunes with money & to keep their show going every year in Goa.



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CHOGM road being dug up all over again

AF NAZARETH, Alto Porvorim
Published Aug 28, 2023, 7:06 PM IST
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CHOGM road in Porvorim  is under attack once again. This time however, it is the sewerage works that are underway by a private agency, that is engaged in digging up the road at several places, to push through a 20-inch sewer pipe, by boring through hard soil and rock. A few of these pits have been back-filled, leaving behind loose earth and large craters that are proving dangerous to motorists. We are thus back to square one it seems, as the beautifully tarred road is…

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